Goofbid failure..

lulu650 · 27 April 2013 at 12:04PM

Had two items I put in Goofbids for. Didn't immediately notice I hadn't received an email confirmation from Goofbid. I don't always get them until a few hours later.

Last night's snipe didn't go through at all. Annoying, as I would have won the item. Luckily this morning I happened to be available to bid as I won the second item.

Anyone else had problems recently?

I like Goofbid when it works, but now I realise I can't rely on it.

alykatz · 27 April 2013 at 1:17PM

Ive heard a few grumblings over the past week about bids failing on goofbid.Not sure what the problem is, but guess something with the servers.

Ive bben using gixen for the past 2/3 years and never yet had a bid fail.

nickcc · 27 April 2013 at 2:49PM

Never used Goofbid but if other bidders also use Goofbid for the same item then one or more must loose out. I'm asking a question here as I've also thought about using Goofbid but have yet to give it a try.

alykatz · 27 April 2013 at 3:17PM

nickcc wrote: »

Never used Goofbid but if other bidders also use Goofbid for the same item then one or more must loose out. I'm asking a question here as I've also thought about using Goofbid but have yet to give it a try.

If im reading your question correctly, then if multiple buyers all use goofbid to place a bid on the same item,then all bids will be placed but obviously the highest bid will win.
Ive been using a sniper for years and never had a problem.

geri1965_2 · 27 April 2013 at 3:30PM

I used to use it, but it failed me a couple of times. I use Gixen now and have never had any problems.

sham63 · 27 April 2013 at 4:30PM

It failed me a couple of times a few years ago and I stopped using it. However, started using it agin about 6 months ago and it has not let me down.

Saying that, there was an item that I really wanted last night - so I set up the snipe on Goofbid - but still ended up bidding manually as I still don't trust it 100% and would have been gutted if it had failed last night.

keyser666 · 27 April 2013 at 8:58PM

never had an issue with gixen either

LadyinBlack_2 · 28 April 2013 at 9:41PM

Goofbid failed me this evening - first time it's failed me but have lost trust now:(. I will try Gixen - thanks for the suggestion.

gillys_desk · 28 April 2013 at 11:42PM

lulu650 wrote: »

Had two items I put in Goofbids for. Didn't immediately notice I hadn't received an email confirmation from Goofbid. I don't always get them until a few hours later.

Last night's snipe didn't go through at all. Annoying, as I would have won the item. Luckily this morning I happened to be available to bid as I won the second item.

Anyone else had problems recently?

I like Goofbid when it works, but now I realise I can't rely on it.

First ever failure with my Goofbid account yesterday - really annoying. My snipe was all set up, but failed to activate and bid, so I lost the item - it for significantly less than my snipe.
Same thing happened to my partner tonight - he has a different Goofbid account, so it's obviously a general problem. Was especially annoying, and he was home and could have bidded live on that occasion. Item only sold for 99p - if seller knew they would be really fed-up!!
Clearly not reliable any more. Such a shame, as we've both used it regularly for a couple of years, and it was previously always completely reliable.

purple321 · 29 April 2013 at 6:15AM

I was trying to set up a snipe yesterday and couldn't even get on the site so it was a universal problem with the site. It hasn't always been reliable there have been phases before where it has had problems usually because of a change ebay had made and they have had to rewrite things.

milliemonster · 29 April 2013 at 6:17AM

Goofbid has failed for me a couple of times and I've only been using it a couple of months, it last failed last week when an item I wanted to bid on went for £4.70 and my max bid was £10.52, it placed my bid but said I lost as my bid wasn't high enough????, not sure if I'm just not getting it!